Undead race option?

[Vaportonic]

since all of the races havent been offically relvealed yet, im a huge fan of divinity 2 and love playing as udnead in games, do you think theyll carry that option over to this game?

[Gunslinger]

There is a vampire already

[Brimcon]

There really isn't an official Undead race that is available to players. There are as NPC races, but they come with extremely hefty negatives ranging from negative to all your soft stats to weakness to Bludgeoning damage.

[Brimcon]

引用自 Gunslinger：

There is a vampire already

Yes, but he's an origin character, and mechanically a High Elf for all intents and purposes. I don't think he has any different stats or abilities.

[Oven]

Well we have a vampire origin character and we can play the drow, which I imagine would have similar gameplay to DOS 2 undead

[Bajkę]

引用自 Brimcon：

There really isn't an official Undead race that is available to players. There are as NPC races, but they come with extremely hefty negatives ranging from negative to all your soft stats to weakness to Bludgeoning damage.

hmmmm, "Undead were extremely resilient to a number of effects and substances that were extremely harmful to the living. They were immune to: all mind-affecting effects, poison,[3] sleep effects,[4]. paralysis, stunning, disease, and death effects. In addition, it was not possible to drain their life force in any mann"

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Undead


They come with over the top traits though although I am not sure if they are playable. I don't know much about DnD but it seems fair to say that they come with their positives

[Bajkę]

引用自 Oven：

Well we have a vampire origin character and we can play the drow, which I imagine would have similar gameplay to DOS 2 undead

You can spine the undead play style/traits in many ways in my opinion so don't count your chickens yet

[Bajkę]

I am curious is their a good undead race? Or is it all evil and monsters?
https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/5e_Creatures

[Brimcon]

引用自 L：

hmmmm, "Undead were extremely resilient to a number of effects and substances that were extremely harmful to the living. They were immune to: all mind-affecting effects, poison,[3] sleep effects,[4]. paralysis, stunning, disease, and death effects. In addition, it was not possible to drain their life force in any mann"

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Undead


They come with over the top traits though although I am not sure if they are playable. I don't know much about DnD but it seems fair to say that they come with their positives

No kidding. You have a -4 to Int and Charisma just as a skeleton which is a HUGE disadvantage.

There's also this in the DMG

引用自 DMG page 282：

Note: This race is listed in the Dungeon Master's Guide as an option for creating NPCs. It is not designed for use as a playable race.

[Bajkę]

So I found this but there isn't any mention of an undead race
https://www.dndbeyond.com/races

[Bajkę]

引用自 Brimcon：

引用自 L：

hmmmm, "Undead were extremely resilient to a number of effects and substances that were extremely harmful to the living. They were immune to: all mind-affecting effects, poison,[3] sleep effects,[4]. paralysis, stunning, disease, and death effects. In addition, it was not possible to drain their life force in any mann"

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Undead


They come with over the top traits though although I am not sure if they are playable. I don't know much about DnD but it seems fair to say that they come with their positives

No kidding. You have a -4 to Int and Charisma just as a skeleton which is a HUGE disadvantage.

There's also this in the DMG

引用自 DMG page 282：

Note: This race is listed in the Dungeon Master's Guide as an option for creating NPCs. It is not designed for use as a playable race.

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[Brimcon]

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[Opossum]

It is incredibly unlikely. It would require a lot of work for something that would be controversial in and of itself. There is no official player race and generally all undead stuff comes with pretty terrible penalties. You could homebrew it but suddenly you have a whole bunch of complications from balance, lore, classes making sense and just a whole bunch of ♥♥♥♥. Lastly just from a story perspective it doesnt really make sense, they already have to explain why certain races are getting abducted for tadpoles, explaining why skeleton man gets it would be REALLY complicate things

[Oven]

引用自 Wes：

Larian should ask Wotc to make it possible one day, maybe not for BG3 but for future sequels. I know there is the vampire thing, but I was thinking more about the Lich & ghoul kind of stuff? I'm not a fan of being just a skeleton or vampire, that is so "plain" to me.

But playing as a Lich or something like that is interesting, and would love to see if there can be a story built on that for an MC or a companion character. I'm sorry if that breaks all the rules of D&D, but didn't Black Isle when creating classes also make unique classes not connected to D&D?

So maybe Larian can do similar by adding an "exclusive" race just for the video game, or am I completely off about this? Maybe I'm missing very important things that just can't make it possible at all? =(

Well Owlcat is doing it, so maybe WOTC can catch on for some much needed lich love. I also don't think there's any official rules for lichdom yet, except that it might be found in an artifact or told by a higher power, so a game expanding on it would make sense

[Hobocop]

Only reason Owlcat is doing it is because Pathfinder is a complete mess in terms of balance couched in decades of content creep from its inception as an offshoot of 3.5.

[Beardpick]

引用自 Hobocop：

Only reason Owlcat is doing it is because Pathfinder is a complete mess in terms of balance couched in decades of content creep from its inception as an offshoot of 3.5.

That coupled with the fact that OwlCat doesn't seem to really understand what little balance exists in the Pathfinder rule system they are trying to adapt.